98
%
SUM Innovation Inc

The 98%
Problem

Blockchain infrastructure built for the people who think crypto is a scam.

Pre-Seed  ·  Infrastructure / Consumer Web3  ·  June 2026
ChatGPT Claude View Code on GitHub
suminnovation.xyz  ·  sumail.xyz  ·  sumchain.io
The Problem

The Industry Burned the Trust.
We're Rebuilding It.

While crypto chased speculation, the systems institutions actually depend on stayed opaque, extractive, and unsafe.

98%

of people surveyed across 150 coffee shops & venues associate blockchain with scams

OPAQUE

A Black Box, Start to Finish

A student waits on a transcript with no way to see why it's delayed or where it's stuck — and no one can independently prove the credential is even real. The whole process runs on blind faith in the providers: you trust it, or you don't.

RENT EXTRACTION

A Toll on Every Record

Middlemen sit between students and the records they earned, charging for every transcript and every verification. It's rent on data that should be free to prove. Vendor lock-in turns that into price gouging: institutions have no real alternative but to keep paying Instructure and a handful of middlemen whatever they ask, for records students already earned.

UNSAFE

One Breach From Exposure

Coursework, grades, and records sit in centralized databases built to be trusted, not verified. One breach exposes everyone, permanently, with no recovery path.

The Insight

Math Doesn't Lie. The Industry Did.

WHAT CRYPTO BECAME

  • ✗Finance-first speculation. Often traded endlessly but used by nobody.
  • ✗Inaccessible to anyone without a terminal.
  • ✗People treat crypto as asset, not cash; Satoshi wrote peer-to-peer digital cash. The industry forgot.
  • ✗Justin Sun bought a banana duct-taped to a wall for $6.2M. Bored Apes went to zero. NFTs burned the last credibility crypto had.
  • ✗95% of UCLA non-tech students don't know what a terminal is.

WHAT SUM RESTORES

  • ✓Utility-backed, real-world anchored chain. Math is the trust, not people.
  • ✓Transparent — verify any credential yourself, no gatekeeper.
  • ✓No middlemen — issue and check records directly, no per-pull tolls.
  • ✓Safe by design — Tadris, a decentralized LMS with no central database to breach.
  • ✓Verifiable transcripts, diplomas, and records — issued and checked on-chain.
"Blockchain asks people to trust math, not people." — Satoshi's original promise.
Why Now

The Window Is Open. It Won't Stay Open.

Data Breaches Are Accelerating

MOVEit, National Public Data, PowerSchool — centralized databases are failing at scale, with 1.7 billion records exposed in 2024 alone. LMS giants like Canvas run the same breach-prone architecture, holding every student's coursework and grades with no recovery path.

Credential Fraud Is Surging

Remote hiring plus generative AI make a convincing fake diploma or transcript trivial. Employers and schools can't trust a PDF anymore; they need verifiable proof, not paper.

Federal Funding Is Being Cut

Institutions are asked to do more with less. Legacy vendors like Parchment charge $3–$8 per transcript pull. Schools need cheap, verifiable alternatives built on infrastructure that can't be breached.

Web3 Infrastructure Investment Is Back

Blockchain infrastructure pre-seed and seed rounds are the dominant deal type in 2025. a16z Crypto closed a $2.2B fund focused on turning crypto infrastructure into everyday products.

The Solution

We Built the Full Stack.
Every Layer. From Scratch.

RUMUS

DEV: Consumer

SYMVASI

SMART CONTRACT

SUMail

CONSUMER

OmniNode

COMPUTE
+ RUMUS

SUM Chain

ENGINE

SNIP

STORAGE
OmniNode Demo: click here
Demos saved on SNIP — decentralized, verifiable & permanent.
Product

SUMail: Web3 That Feels Like Web2

SUMail — Academic Transcript Spring 2025
Tadris — Courses overview

Verifiable Credentials On-Chain

Employment records, transcripts, degrees: issued, signed, and verified on SUM Chain. Encrypted content via our token standards: SRC-201 (mail), SRC-810 (transcript) · SRC-811 (degree/diploma) · SRC-812 (enrollment) · SRC-882 (employment). Built with privacy, encrypted by design.

No Honeypot. No Single Point of Failure.

Centralized databases are honeypots by design — a single breach exposes millions of records stored in one place, by one party, with one point of failure. On SUM Chain, credentials are tamper-proof the moment they're written. MPC and zero-knowledge proofs mean sensitive data is never exposed — not even to us. There is nothing to hack.

Canvas Went Down, We Went Up

We ship FAST. SUMaillet is live on the Chrome Web Store. Self-custodial signing: your keys, your mail, your chain. Tadris was shipped and connected to our infrastructure just days after the Canvas outage. Tested with 32 UCLA students with zero blockchain background — onboarded Day 1. The bar: if your cat can use it, it ships.

Traction

Shipped 4 Production Products
in 5 Months. No Shortcuts.

Nov 20
2025
SUM Chain
LIVE
Dec 13
2025
SUMail
LIVE
Mar 15
2026
OmniNode
LIVE
Apr 16
2026
SNIP
LIVE
4
Products shipped
< 5 mo
Time to full ecosystem
32
UCLA students tested
100%
Code reviewed in-house
Market & Competition

Massive Markets. No One Has Built the Full Stack.

Decentralized AI Compute

$900B+ TAM $73-100B SAM $400M SOM
Render Network — GPU rendering only. No storage, no identity, no consumer layer.
Akash — General compute marketplace. No AI-specific orchestration, no credential system.

Decentralized Storage

$150B+ TAM $3.6B SAM $180M SOM
Filecoin — Storage deals only. No identity, no compute, poor consumer UX.
Arweave — Permanent storage. No credentials, no compute, no application layer.

Web3 Consumer Apps

$30-50B TAM $17.9B SAM $120M SOM
Parchment / NSC — Centralized transcript vendor. $3–$8 per pull. Single point of failure.
Ceramic — Decentralized data model. No storage network, no compute, no consumer product.

Every competitor solves one piece. SUM is the only full-stack — identity, storage, compute, and consumer apps — unified on one chain, accessed through one identity.

Tokenization & Revenue Model

One Token. Utility-Backed. Not Speculation.

Institutions

Pay to access the network. Flat, predictable, auditable.

DRIVES ADOPTION

Individuals

Students, researchers, and professionals access services free or at reduced cost.

Decentralized Storage

SNIP

Clients pay per GB to store and retrieve tamper-proof data on SNIP's decentralized network.

Parallelized Compute

OmniNode

OmniNode takes a protocol fee on AI inference jobs routed through the network.

Mailing Services

SUMail

Senders pay to issue transcripts and official documents through SUMail. Free for students.

Team

The Only Team That Can Build This.
Here's Why.

Leonard

Leonard

CEO · AI · Blockchain · Systems

RUMUS — Rust-native deep learning framework, 150+ GitHub stars. OmniNode — Top 5 Global, AI Tinkerers LA. UCLA Math/CS. Alpha Speedrun: 100% coding assessment.

Michael

Michael

COO · Infra · Platform · Security

NASA lunar mission telemetry published in SPIE. DARPA-backed AML subgraph matching engine in C++. Architected SNIP from zero. Shipped SUMaillet to Chrome Web Store.

Caleb

Caleb

CPO · Math · Product · Analytics

Univ. of Delaware Applied Math PhD candidate. Proved OmniNode model-sharding architecture. Shipped Graduate Journey — live product for underserved first-gen and international students.

Shayan

Shayan

CSO · Statistics · Networks · Go-To-Market

Columbia University MA Statistics. Validated mathematical foundations across SUM protocols. Columbia alumni network as GTM leverage.

Academic Advisors

Prof. Andrea Bertozzi (UCLA) · Prof. Paolo Climaco (UCLA) — Co-directed Leonard & Michael's graph-matching research (signed MATH 199). Foundational to SUM Chain consensus layer.

SUM Innovation Inc

$2M to Take SUM From
Internal Ecosystem to Market.

What we're raising and what we need beyond capital:

$1M
50%
Infrastructure & Engineering

Validators and Archive Nodes to secure SUM Chain and serve SNIP at scale; core engineering to harden every layer.

$300K
15%
GTM

School and institution deployments for SUMail — travel, installation, on-site onboarding.

$250K
12.5%
Business & Marketing

Marketing and sales experts to form GTM, build pipeline, and reach institutions.

$200K
10%
Legal & Patents

Patent filings across SUM Chain, SNIP, OmniNode, SUMail — plus IP and corporate counsel.

$250K
12.5%
Runway Buffer

Multi-month operating stability through the next milestone.

Beyond capital, we need: Expert GTM operators · Partnership intros · Recruiting pipeline · Demo Day distribution · Network access
SUM
SUM Innovation Inc

Get In Touch.

Reach us the old way — or prove you've been paying attention and use ours w/ credentials admin@suminnovation.xyz ["UqU4870Tz3OC!"]

Leonard — CEO
leo@suminnovation.xyz
SUM Chain: EoK8yhHUpKfybhb1K59C9KDT6BibTDyPP
suminnovation.xyz · sumail.xyz · sumchain.io
Michael — COO
michael@suminnovation.xyz
SUM Chain: MMwxCo6U35xubBLi6N3ouktKiT7FM2gFE
suminnovation.xyz · sumail.xyz · sumchain.io
Caleb — CPO
Khalebean@suminnovation.xyz
SUM Chain: 2Ehi3aBAtV2bSoN1pPNDbxBKsFSxWrrDQ
suminnovation.xyz · sumail.xyz · sumchain.io
Shayan — CSO
shayan@suminnovation.xyz
SUM Chain: 4PanYCkhwtJvMxm2mJyzqyqmq9q9bDEtQ
suminnovation.xyz · sumail.xyz · sumchain.io
01 / 12